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  • Uniqlo Creative Award 2005

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    Uniqlo keeps trying to do something interesting in the tee market — and I still have yet to find anything I really like. This “Uniqlo Creative Award 2005” thing happening at Spiral this week might be interesting though. The concept of the Uniqlo Creative Award 2005 was “freedom and fun” to the ultimate basic casual…

  • When Masters Were Young

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    English subs! English subs! English subs! This is volume two of the “Masters of the Japanese Cinema” series, part one of which enjoyed great popularity especially among foreign fans of Japanese film in June 2004. Again offering an attractive set of movies shown with English subtitles, the program this time is made up of Ichikawa…

  • Docomomo_100 Japan

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    The Docomomo 100 in Japan was featured in the September 2004 issue of CASA BRUTUS (54), which happened to be a bilingual issue. Docomomo was established in 1988 in Holland as an “international working party for document and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement” (from the Website). This event introduces in…

  • OK Fred 5 Launch Event

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    Today marks the release date of the brand spanking new issue of OK FRED (5): “This Is Our Tokyo.” If you’ve listened to the latest episode of Radio OK Fred (4), you’ll have an idea of what you’ll find inside. To celebrate the launch, an exhibition will be taking place at Caniche Courage in Aoyama…

  • Art Directors Club Exhibition

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    From TAB: Since its establishment in 1920, the Art Directors Club has been the leader of the graphic design industry, and its award exhibitions have long attracted many people in the design and advertising worlds. This 83rd Award was open to works made in 2003, and collected close to 12,000 submissions from 43 countries; of…

  • OK Poets

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    Each session is 3500 yen (3000 yen for members), and it happens at the beautiful Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. You can also make reservations by email or phone (03-3445-0669).

  • Ito and the Tongue

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    Joi Ito digs tongue. The kind you eat that is, and Gridskipper has a post on it. Also, Nick Denton is the guest editor there all week. Update: And now there’s this post on love hotels, which describes exactly what I did (no, I’m not Gortuk) on my first visit to Tokyo, before I moved…

  • Zoren & Johan Exhibition

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    Currently at Depot: Fashion pages inspired by ancient intelligence in southamerican, from tokyo based photographer duo zoren gold & minori murakami. They’ll show you around 10 new artworks. Johan will show you 1 new artwork and some past works. 【ZOREN & MINORI profile】 German photographer zoren gold and japanese graphic artist minori murakami started their…

  • Diamond Project

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    Julia Barnes of the Nakaochiai Gallery sends in the following: THANK YOU ART DAY Wed 9 MARCH 9am-12pm NAKAOCHIAI Gallery will be serving COLDSTOP herb tea and giving away photographs to the 54 participants of the DIAMOND PROJECT taken by SAN FRANCISCO based artist CLINT TANIGUCHI. (www.39art.com for further events) The participants were asked to…

  • Tokyo Bookstores

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    While I’m clearing up some notes, here are a couple of bookstores I keep wanting to check out. Hacknet Pictured above, this bookstore is in Daikanyama. They’re also behind the book sections at Sign and Claska, and have a couple of shops in Osaka. 1-30-10 West Ebisu Utrecht Another attractive bookshop in the vicinity. 2-1-1-2F…